Video Stories

The UNITAS Foundation in Estonia and Michael Kirtley, international journalist and filmmaker from the USA, have teamed up to launch an unparalleled social experiment called the World Memory Film Project (WMFP). The project’s goal is to raise youth empowerment through worldwide social media, against historical and contemporary crimes against humanity. Our initial focus is the making of a feature-length documentary film drawn mainly from thousands of creative “video stories” solicited from internet enthusiasts in various nations (“crowdsourcing”).

These short personal films relate young people’s emotional reactions to xenocidal actions committed by oppressive regimes and groups in various parts of the world. (“Xenocide” is a word we’ve coined from combining “xenophobia” and “genocide”, to describe the wide range of such crimes. Learn more about xenocide, and about the WMFP, on the links above.) Here are some of the first video stories we have received: